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8/20/2008 8:07 AM
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A Short History of the Georgian War

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This is what happens when you let idiots give you advice.

“Georgian planning flaws led to campaign failure”

Richard Giragosian August 18, 2008

Georgia made an over-confident assumption of its combat capabilities and underestimated the scale of the Russian response, argues Richard Giragosian

The Georgian offensive opened with an infantry assault against South Ossetia’s capital Tskhinvali, situated is in a valley surrounded by Georgian-populated villages, with an open terrain conducive to armoured and mass infantry penetration. The thrust came after a preparatory artillery attack from Georgian positions with fire support capabilities including target-oriented and concentrated fire, and including a mortar barrage and launch of notoriously imprecise truck-mounted GRAD multiple-barreled rocket launchers.

Although politically in line with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s consistent threats to restore his country’s territorial integrity, in strictly military terms, the offensive was the first-ever test of the U.S.-trained Georgian troops.

Georgia’s first tactical blunder was also its most serious strategic setback. The rebel South Ossetia region borders the Russian region of North Ossetia and is connected by the Roki Tunnel, which is the sole reliable passage through the Caucasus Mountains. While the strategic significance of the Roki Tunnel is enhanced by its role as the region’s only reliable external link, Georgia’s apparent failure to recognize its inherent vulnerability as the only effective land route for a Russian advance was a glaring oversight, if not disastrously fatal decision for Georgian military planners. The failure to even attempt to impede or constrict this land route gave Russian forces secure and unopposed access and greatly reduced the danger of over-extended supply lines.

The Russian Response

The Russian response was both rapid and overwhelming and, as the first military offensive beyond Russia’ borders since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, its severity was unexpected. The Russian campaign was spearheaded by its 58th Army, which as the centerpiece of Russia’s already volatile Caucasus Military District, is regarded as the best trained and most combat-ready unit of the Russian Army. Initially formed in 1995 specifically for operations in Chechnya, the 70,000-strong 58th Army is based in the nearby North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz and consists of 609 tanks, 2,000 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, 125 artillery pieces, 190 Grad and Uragan volley-fire rocket launchers, and 450 anti-aircraft guns. It is also endowed with its own air support of 120 combat aircraft and 70 helicopters.

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8/20/2008 9:27 AM

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Russia’s peacekeepers in South Ossetia were fired at short range, which confirms the intended-killing story, Major General Alexander Sorochkin, who heads the military investigating department, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.

The close view of a killed Russian soldier proved he had been fired at short range.

“Two penetrating gun wounds were found. The first one wasn’t lethal, in the leg, the second - was in the head.

Traces of explosive gas burns near the entry hall are the evidence of short-range firing," Sorochin specified.

South Ossetia’s authorities and the RF Defense Ministry announced that the riot troops of Georgia were firing point-blank at wounded peacekeepers of Russia already on the first day of military clashes in Tskhinvali.

Under the international laws, the attack on peacekeepers is the ground for opening fire.

In Tbilisi, however, they claim they had done utmost to ensure peacekeepers’ safety.

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8/20/2008 10:13 AM

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Truth in history bump.

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